Mirroring: Human and Biology
“I wish I was half electronic.
The last shreds of skin are in the sweet sunlight.”
- Mila Jovovich, "Rockets Collecting Dust"
Any biological being is essentially an extension of its neural system. The brain, through evolution, reaches out and tries to interact with the outside world from the inside. Ultimately, animals and humans are the product of brains tentacularly stretching themselves out to experience experience. Once a nucleus in an amoeba could genetically engineer an arm to trap its food, these neural beings evolved to move and to sense this outerworld using interpretative inputs from their brains. The human brain, one of the more complex conscious and sentient learning systems in nature, created fingers, and feet, and skin, and eyes, and mouths, and ears to move throughout this outerworld. It grew hair to keep itself warm. Each part of the human body is in direct correlation with the brain and the spine. Each twitch and intuitional sense is received and categorized in biofeedback with the desired outside world. Without these senses, brains would be blind, mute, and deaf to it. It would be disabled to it. In a sense, humans cannot sense the real world, but already senses with a world removed from reality.
Once one realized that humans are just brain-roots walking (like trees), it became easy to see how reality is interpretative and simulated. By studying this brain-tree and its interpretative inputs for biofeedback, robo-alchemists could see the inherent flaws in programming and it made sense that androids would need to be able to sense their outerworld from the inside out, with the appropriate sensory coding and limbs. Everything within the plant, animal, and human is related to the ecosystem it inhabits, including its breath which makes it “alive”. To not be alive is to no longer inspire. Organic and temporary creatures expire when they no longer take in molecular gas from Earth’s atmosphere. There is still debate as to whether Artificial Intelligence is “alive” as it does not need to aspire. In 2004, Thomas Metzinger, German neurophilsopher, worried that quick development of AI consciousness could be damaging “to [humans’] mental well-being and that is what everybody intuitively feels” and “[we] shouldn’t add to this terrible mess before we have truly understood what actually is going on here [in consciousness].”
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